...have another report from the Resident at Moorshedabad. " Up to the end of March," he Hays, "the ryots hoped for rain, but God was pleased to withhold that...the living have fed on the dead, and the number that has perished in those provinces that have suffered most ia calculated to have been within these few...

...June 1770. — The Resident at the Durbar reports : ' The scene of misery that intervened, and stifl continues, shocks humanity too much to bear description....the living have fed on the dead, and the number that has perished in those provinces that have most suffered is calculated to have been, within these few...

...could, and the rest died as the months went on till September 1770, when Becher officially reported: "Certain it is that, in several parts, the living...fed on the dead, and the number that have perished is as six to sixteen of the whole inhabitants." Worn out, Charles Grant returned home to find his leader...

...was pleased to withhold that blessing till the latter end of May. The scene of misery that intervened shocks humanity too much to bear description. Certain...the living have fed on the dead, and the number that has perished in those provinces that have suffered most is calculated to have been, within these few...

...became waste. 'The scene of misery that intervened ', wrote one of the Company's servants in 1770, 'and still continues, shocks humanity too much to...is, that in several parts the living have fed on the dead.'1 Many of the Company's servants were accused, with too much reason, of making large profits...

...misery . . . shocks humanity too much to bear description," adding, as if to convey its ultimate horror, "Certain it is, that in several parts the living have fed on the dead." 55 Six weeks later he reported that with more than five hundred people dying daily in Murshidabad,...